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Bash 3.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the hallelujah-bash-is-risen dept.

qazwsx789 writes "The first public release of bash-3.0 is now available via ftp and from the usual GNU mirror sites. For the official release notes by the author, Chet Ramey, check his usenet post."

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  1. Re:I'm still waiting for a feature by BrokenHalo · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ...a GTK front end

    There is. Try zenity.

  2. Not much changed by opk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doesn't seem to be much changed given the version number increase. [[ =~ ]] can match regexes and it can do zsh style {1..3} expansions. Improved multibyte support too. There were bigger changes in some of the 2.0x updates.

  3. Re:Apple helping out by hot_Karls_bad_cavern · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "It's nice to see yet more contributions from Apple to the OSS community."

    Right on, brother. (This is not bashing apple before i get started!) They have done something that no one else in the *nix world has done: shit-hot gui. People can blather about this and that, but to deny that Apple has created one of the most user-friendly, beautiful, slick gui's for *nix is crazy. I'd like to continue seeing Apple release more help to OSS. Keep the real money makers to themselves (for now), but allow more dev's to release usefull changes back to the community that helped build it ya know?

    You are 100% correct that it's nice to see them making another move like this...even if it was a lil' one :)

  4. Re:On the list of changes: by grub · · Score: 4, Insightful


    I'm wondering why it's in the "LINUX" section of /. Bash is used across many different OSs.

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  5. That was a wild mod ride! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Man, all I wanted to do was say that I also liked zsh. I didn't think that many people were so wrapped up in their shells.

    My post started with +2 (cause I are 1337). Then I got an "Interesting", two "Overrated"s, a "Funny", and most recently a "Flamebait".

    Come on, mods: can I have an "Insightful" and an "Underrated", too?

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  6. Re:bash = "embrace and extend" proprietary crap by pohl · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Proprietary \Pro*pri"e*ta*ry\, a. [L. proprietarius.]
    Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as
    property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.
    [1913 Webster]

    Seems like an odd word to use to describe free software. Try not to lip-sync to the jargon, dude.

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